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View Poll Results: When would you like a regular gathering to play Mechwarrior Online to take place?

Fill out this form to list your in-game name so people can find you. It will take you to a google docs thing that will let you fill out your gaming related details. You can then view a list of other players who play MWO and hang out with RPS here, as a google spreadsheet thing.

Finally, we do have a Steam Group to aid in finding each other/sending each other messages via Steam along the lines of 'hey come play? ;_;' --> http://www.steamcommunity.com/groups/RockPaperSRM - feel free to sit in the chat room to try and find people to play with!

We play somewhat regularly from around 19:30 UK time onwards, meeting up on:

MechWarrior MechWednesday (Wednesdays) (The big one)

Pew-Pew-Patch-Tuesday (Tuesdays) (after the weekly patch goes up)

Stompybot Sunday/Saturday (Weekends, although this is usually just us hanging out at random on weekends and gradually agglutinating into a group.)

The MechWarrior group system requires people to split up into groups of 4 -- our current ettiquette, in the event of there being five players, is to have one player drop out every match based on who died first/did the least damage, swapping out so the fifth player can join. Then the next match someone will swap out again for them, and so on. At the point we get 6 players, we usually split into two lances of 3.

The old post in all its mixed glory follows, after this MASSIVE UPDATE EDIT with all the stuff above:

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Okay, so. I've been trying to get people to play with me, and although I have had some success, impromptu yelling 'Hey come play with me' in the RPS steam group chatroom and in the MWO thread here have had limited results.

In short: New mechwarrior game, it's a free to play MMO with excellent looking robots and explosions, and some difficulties, because it's still in Open Beta. However, it is good enough to have hooked some of us, and have hooked us badly.

Here is what I propose: We set up a weekly event like the Arma and Planetside guys have done to meet up, mingle, and basically gather up for a couple of hours to form either up to four man lances or eight man lances, using for voicechat the RPS community mumble server. (Props 2 Nullkigan and the donors) ---> http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/foru...nd-other-games

The current game mode is a straight capture-the-enemy-base w/ team death match strapped on, although a new team mode is due in the next major patch on December 18th. Currently the way it works is you either have groups of 2-4 people dropping together in the general pick-up-game pool, or groups of 8 people exactly dropping together against other groups of 8 people.

Edit: The poll's results have been far from clear, so, for now, we're going to run one-off test sessions until we find a good time people like.

Okay, with the polls closed, we have results pretty much all over the place. XD

So, I'm going to say that we're going to try for a few sessions this week, and see how it goes. I've started a steam group, which will hopefully aid casual hookups for the stompybot crowd, and will hopefully aid organizings. If things go well I'll try and get it going as, like, a proper RPS group.

All times are UK based, and I will both be in steam chatrooms and on mumble (see here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/foru...nd-other-games ) to await comrades in arms, barring accidents and/or miseries. Sessions will last an hour or two, or however long it takes us to get bored.